Pulled turkey sandwiches......w/pic's

Clay Q

Pulled turkey sandwiches…..with pic’s[p]It’s that time of the year and I wanted to start out with turkey sandwiches for some quick and easy lunches this week. I bought two fresh split breasts, skin on, no injections. Ok, but can this turkey be pulled into savory sandwich meat? I’m happy to say yes.[p]I started out with the thought that I gotta keep this as moist as possible yet have the turkey cooked long enough to pull – if at all. So I set the egg up indirect, platesetter feet up, grid on platesetter, drip pan and rack on grid. I oiled the meat, seasoned with Dizzy Dust, laid on some bacon and put it in the egg at 300 dome. I poured a cup of warm water in the drip pan. I used three small pecan chunks for smoke. When the breast hit 150 internal I removed the turkey from the egg.





I placed the breasts in my trusty No. 12 after laying in the bacon and drip pan water. Covered and back to the egg until I hit 180 internal. I know what your thinking- I killed it.





The meat turned out moist, tender and well done and as my goal was to pull this meat, I felt this was a good way to go. And it pulled apart nicely. Amazing giving the fact that there is little if any fat.





I made a cream sauce using the juice from the dutch oven, added this to the meat and did a second smoking using the dutch oven with the lid off. The first smoking flavor was removed with the skin and bacon being discarded. 20 minutes with cherry wood did the trick. About a 5 hour easy cook on the egg, 300 dome all the way. Hey, I’m eating healthy this week!



Clay

stike

ClayQ,
you should be able to 'pull' it at a loewr temp, though, no?
there's no real collagen being broken down, so could you just cook it til done and then pull it apart anyway?[p]it stays so moist (chicken too) that you can pretty easily fork-slit breast meat without having to cook it like you do pork (til 180-200).[p]just wondering if it would be very different if you just cooked it at the same temps til it was 160-165 and 'pulled' it.[p]

Trouble

ClayQ,
That looks tremendous. Thanks for the detailed post. Now I'm a-hongry!

Lawn Ranger

ClayQ,
Man, You've done it again...incredible![p]Mike

Eggecutioner

Clay - [p]I have to say that the macro pic of the pulled bird looks AWESOME! I would kill for one of those right now. Well not really, but I could eat again.[p]Nice.[p]Eggecutioner

locolongball

ClayQ,[p]Never would of thought! Nice Work!